Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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None could deny that the S.S. Independence was a capital ship for an ocean trip. Adding to the normal opulence of the liner's staterooms and saloons were ballroom and calypso bands, an assortment of fandango dancers, cabaret singers and social directors, and enough rich food and free Virgin Islands rum (for those who tired of the domestic champagne) for a well-sated cruise of indefinite duration-and all at the bargain price of $250 a head. The nation's Governors, after 58 national conferences ashore, had decided to try the unpath'd waters...
...lack. Though India has one-fifth of the world's cattle, religious taboos keep its per capita consumption of beef, a chief source of protein, the lowest of any major country's. Poverty and scarcity, as well as traditional vegetarianism, prevent many Indians from eating such protein-rich foods as fish, poultry and eggs...
...develop protein supplements than to get Indians to eat them. The high-protein gruel, Balahar ("nutritious child's food" in Hindi), concocted of wheat, peanuts and powdered milk, has been widely distributed in drought-stricken Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh states. But mothers often withhold the protein-rich lentil dal from their babies because they believe it upsets young stomachs...
...just a barefoot girl on Madison Avenue, yearning for her own ad agency, when she sweetied Braniff Airways into handing over its $6,500,000 advertising account in 1966. Since then, Mary Wells, 39, chief flag raiser at Wells, Rich, Greene, Inc., has zapped the buying public with a campaign for Braniff's rainbow-colored planes and Pucci-pantsed stewardesses, lured such other clients to her lair as Alka Seltzer, Benson & Hedges and American Motors. But most of all she wowed Braniff President Harding Lawrence, 47, who offered his hand to Mary after withdrawing it last year from...
...Education and Welfare Secretary John W. Gardner), snared hefty foundation grants, nearly tripled the faculty (to 73), increased enrollment by more than 50% (625). He also broadened the curriculum to include ethics seminars and other subjects, built a vigorous research program from scratch. And what was once a California rich man's school also took on an international scope. Out of a conviction that Stanford "has an obligation to help management education develop in other countries," he set up a Stanford-run business school in Peru in 1964, has brought foreign students to 15% of total enrollment at home...